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Home for the holidays? Share this top cybersecurity advice with friends and family
Sharing security advice can go a long way in protecting your loved ones from the most common and damaging online threats.
For the millions of people at home with friends and family for the festive season, it’s also the time of year where many get roped into fixing the house’s spotty Wi-Fi or face a barrage of questions about tech. “Another thing I see folks struggle with regularly is the wave of spam texts, calls, emails, and notifications designed to social engineer users into visiting malicious websites or giving away logins and personal data,” said Condon. Tobac suggests being “politely paranoid,” a way of verifying that people and companies are who they say they are by contacting them back using a different method of communication before ever handing over information that could do harm, like a credit card number or a password.
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